by Dave Johnson | Jul 23, 2013 | Climate, Making it in America
"Going down to Mississippi wages does not signal a bright future for American economy." - Harold Meyerson President Obama campaigned with a promise to add 1 million new manufacturing jobs in his second term. So far only 13,000 have been added. The AAMeter illulstrates...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 22, 2013 | Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Trans-Pacific Partnership – the corporate sovereignty treaty – is coming and they're going to try to push it through Congress with "Fast Track." It's really, really important to pay attention to this one. You have seen what the "free trade" agreements have done to...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 3, 2013 | Making it in America
The trade deficit is a measure of how much money and how many jobs we are transferring in or out of the country. The May trade deficit was just reported, and it jumped sharply. Other countries see themselves as countries and compete with us as a country while we...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 24, 2013 | Making it in America
Companies say they are being patriotic and responsible by bringing jobs and manufacturing back to the US. Is it true? And how come you can't buy clothes that fit anymore? At Netroots Nation the panel What We Can Do to Expose “Red, White and Blue-Washing” took a look...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 12, 2013 | Making it in America
This week I hosted a blogger call to discuss the outcome of last week's Friday/Saturday meetings between President Obama and Chinese President and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping. None of this matters much, unless you care about your job,...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 10, 2013 | Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
You know how big-company lobbyists get some states to pass laws that block cities and counties from doing something about problems like tobacco or guns? Well there is a "trade" treaty called the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the works that sets down international rules...